Eat snacks when you are bored... Eat snacks when you are sad... Eat snacks when you are happy... Eat snacks when you work overtime... Eat snacks when you are watching TV... Eat snacks when you are not happy, eat snacks when you are not happy...

...In short, it doesn’t matter whether he is hungry or not, he just wants to eat.

This should be the norm for many friends. They always want to eat for no reason but are not hungry. They just want to use delicious food to pass the time or as an excuse to change their mood.

In fact, you may be falling into the trap of "emotional eating".

Emotional eating refers to eating that is not physiological eating because you are really hungry and need to replenish energy, but a kind of eating behavior caused by emotions. This behavior is mostly temporary and intermittent and frequent.

In the fast-paced modern life, there are many stressful and unhappy things, and eating is actively used as the easiest and most convenient way to obtain happiness.

Relevant studies show that 52% of women have severe "emotional" eating symptoms, while only 20% of men have symptoms. This is also consistent with the fact that many foodies are female friends.

Here, for the many bitches and cute girls who claim to be "foodies", Renma Niu must say this: As a foodie, you may have fallen into the pit of emotional eating!

The biggest characteristic of emotional eating is irregularity and spontaneity.

The main symptoms are: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating, anorexia nervosa: many people think that emotional eating must mean eating more and more frequently, but it is not.

Anorexia nervosa is also a type of emotional eating.

Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that intentionally causes and maintains a weight significantly lower than normal through dieting and other means. This anorexic behavior is also caused by emotions and does not mean that there is no need to eat when one is not hungry.

Both bulimia and overeating are types of difficulty controlling appetite. This eating habit will cause the body to consume too many calories, leading to an increase in body fat and rapid obesity.

Maybe you are still confused and don’t know how to determine whether you really fall into the category of emotional eating. Then if you get more than 3 of them, unfortunately, you may really fall into the trap of “emotional eating”.

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1. Being unable to stop eating when you are not hungry, and not realizing that you are eating; 2. Wanting to eat whether you are happy or sad; 3. When you are stressed, eating as a way to put pressure on yourself; 4. In order to avoid

Eating out of boredom; 5. When your mood is affected by stress or other things, you eat faster; 6. Sudden hunger, a sudden desire to eat instead of gradually becoming hungry; 7. When you eat to comfort yourself rather than to satisfy yourself

Eating can lead to guilt when eating out of physical hunger.

Why does emotional eating occur?

There are many reasons, it could be boredom, sadness, happiness... an emotion that often appears in our lives.

For example, our emotional stress will cause the body's stress hormone cortisol levels to increase, which will be affected by stressful emotions, thereby stimulating the desire for food.

At the same time, there are also some bad habits developed in our childhood.

When we were young, our parents often used delicious food to trap us and induce us to do certain things. This may also be the reason why we choose to use food to vent our emotions now, because eating habits often follow us throughout our lives.

If you use food to vent your emotions as a child, you are more likely to develop emotional eating as an adult.

In addition, genes may also play a role in our emotional eating.

When a person possesses an Asp40 allelic variant of the μ opioid receptor gene (OPRM), the functional activity of the μ opioid receptor is enhanced. People who carry this gene are not only prone to opioid and alcohol addiction, but also

It’s easy to become addicted to food.

Since it is emotional eating, we must change our emotions, direct our attention to a correct method, and use other methods to replace eating.

As a fitness influencer, Renma Niu strongly believes in the Amway exercise conversion method.

Everyone knows that when the amount of exercise reaches a certain level, the hypothalamus secretes endorphins, making you happy and satisfied.

It can not only regulate emotional eating, but also exercise to maintain a good body. Why not do it?

However, exercise is not just about moving casually. If you want to secrete endorphins, you must use up all the glycogen before secretion can begin. Therefore, it is best to choose aerobic exercise for more than half an hour. If you feel that aerobic exercise is a waste of time, then it is okay.

Select Tabata.